When people link other instances in posts or comments, it should automatically be translated to view it on your own instance instead of having to take it and search for it.
Yea, on jerboa the links open in web browser, tried to set it to open in jerboa but it crashes the app.
I would LOVE to be sent right to the c/ homepage where I can sub right in jerboa, no links or search.
I like this one. Posted instance mentions were doing my head in as a newbie.
User flairs!
There is an open issue already for some time. Hopefully with the new user influx this gets more attention. Certain communities, like sports, feel incomplete without flairs.
Ways to group communities to browse at once rather than just local, all, and subscribed. A multi-Lemmy if you will.
This would be particularly useful now that a ton of tiny but similar places are springing up and vying for attention. That way you wouldn't have to choose which to browse.
easy subscribe links - like, click on it and then subscribe, not the current method (which totally functions but its cumbersome and unwieldly).
When i scroll on the website, the website header does not follow. Meaning if I want to go somewhere or refresh the feed, i have to scroll way up to do so. Its a bit frustrating.
In the meantime you can use Stylus, there are styles already supporting this, basically it's just setting the navbar position to fixed.
More for jerboa, but RIF had an option to confirm you want to go back/refresh feed. My palm accidentally hits the back button often, and I have to start scrolling back from the top.
Even better yet, Relay had a dedicated button that hid all posts you'd already viewed so you never had to worry about accidentally refreshing your feed as you could just hide everything and go back to where you were. It even had an option to automatically mark posts you scrolled past as read so you didn't have to open posts that you were only going to read the title of.
Default to showing subscribed communities, rather than local ones. De-emphasise the server in certain areas (eg community list) - I think the community is more important than the server it’s on and having it there so prominently causes confusion about it’s importance.
I can see why it has the server focus but I’d argue most people want to join a general server with a wide reach rather than something isolated.
Though this is me trying to use Lemmy as “distributed Reddit” so maybe I just don’t get it.
User and post flares!
Post labels are awesome, can't wait
"...hate to wait for flare recharging!"
Karma
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I’m actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.
I don’t miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.
Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you'd have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.
I got permabaned just before i could reach 10K karma :(
It would just give birth to karma farming bots and accounts. If you have no karma to farm, the posts should remain more high quality (in theory)
I think it's mainly to discourage reposting for the sake of reposting. On top of that, lemmy doesn't go out of it's way to improve user retention, which I believe karma and the incessant notifications about your comments being upvoted, were about.
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Better ways to explore the communities available. Also maybe improving the Android app ecosystem.
You might like https://lemmyverse.net/
There needs to be a way to link to a post in an instance agnostic way.
For example, this post is in [email protected] and the id is 1255605, but that id number won't work on any other instance.
If someone shares a link with me like https://lemmy.ml/post/1255605 that will take me to lemmy.ml, where I'm not logged in. If I have an account on lemmy.world then the only way for me to comment on this post is to navigate to lemmy.world/c/[email protected] manually and then literally look at the feed to find this post. It's a pain in the butt for new / current threads but will be a huge pain for older threads.
The ability to merge/join communities across instances. Right now, there's lots of duplicated communities - which isn't a big problem, but I feel that it'll hinder adoption as it fragments the audience for a given topic.
Edit: also worth saying that it seems like that the if the instance hosting a community goes away, so does the community.
Yes, it is worth saying. In fact I was scrolling for this. There should be a way to adopt refugee communities with all its posts from other instances so as to not lose all the information when the server goes down for good. It needs consensus, but only from admins of original community and the new host, this last to prevent server abuse. Also, if communities can get merged, the list of instances hosting the community would serve both as redundant backup and as distributed (instead of fragmented) service.
The people would have to communicate and agree on terms, which is a positive in its own way I think. But as you know, some people don't wanna give up power.
Over time people will find which fragment they like the best and each will developed its own culture. Some will combine I'm sure.
Opengraph tags for posts with embedded content need some work. That would fully fix interop between lemmy threads and Mastodon, as just one benefit.
Turn off porn on the "all" thread without having to block other NSFW content. It's getting pretty bad blocking three or four porn communities every time I try to browse, but not being able to block the instances they're all coming from.
I always thought that NSFW was too vague a term. One person's NSFW is different to another's.
What would work better is specific content tags. That would work well for trigger warnings too.
It would cover porn: nudity, softcore, hardcore
But also content themes: Alcoholism, drug taking, violence, suicide, war, guns
It could even be used for spoilers.
Users could then select the specific themes they didn't want to see. For better UX you could have a slider that had pre selected levels. "strict", "relaxed", "everything".
Posts often present content warnings behind spoiler tags at the start. The idea being that some users don't want the story spoiled by hearing what themes it contains. That's why I believe this system would work. Rather than having the content warnings visible it all happens in the background through structured data. Your app already knows if it's content you don't want to see so it either hides it, or perhaps blurs it with a warning that you likely don't want to read it.
Hopefully a multi-community (multi Reddit type) feature
Jerboa could use a hide post option from RedReader.
Ability to hide posts
Yea
Copy all subscriptions from one account to another, adapting as necessary across servers.
I'd like to be able to set the default view to sort by new in subscribed communities, currently it defaults back to active/local.
Highlight new comments (if there's already a way to do this please let me know as I'm brand new here)
Do you mean, sorting by new? This can be done in a specific post's comments:
And in the global view: (It's all in French, sorry 'bout that 😅)
From what I've seen, they pop up automatically and you can have notifications enabled in your browser.I meant more like when you re-open a thread you've read before and there are x new comments. It would be nice to have those comments highlighted so they're easy to find. Sorting by new works but only for top level comments.
I'm used to it coming from Sync for Reddit. See the green comments with dots:
Custom CSS themes, for the main interface, but also maybe on a per-community basis? I liked most of what I'd see on Reddit.
an ability to re-order search results, eg in the communities list page having it so that we can click on a column and have the results sort according to that column, or alphabetically or most recent.
and some way of filtering the results would be good as well
I thought that was going to work because the cursor changed on hover. I'd assumed the instance I was on was crushed with new load. It's crying out of that to be sortable.
mark all as read in the inbox would be good also an easyer way to upload pictures too (unles s im dumb and made an error) also flairs and diffrent themes, as you can see im a noob.
For me, I'm using jerboa app, in my inbox I can click the little double check mark button in top right and it moves them all to Read
a way to make the screen take the full space without whitespace, like old.reddit, in the settings
modfeed. oh I found it
My only issue is the search function to find and subscribe to communities, and links are opening up on browser and not jerboa.
Other than that I'm having a fantastic experience.
polls
Ability for a user to place communities they find into a catagory/multi-lemmy that they can scroll. (Like a multi-reddit)
That way the fragmented communities all of the same subject spread across all the instances can be grouped together by the user.
User creats an awww multireddit/catagory or whatever and inside it they put [email protected], and [email protected], and [email protected].
Keeps things decentralized on the back end but ties things together for the user.
Maybe... we can call them Cities...? You know... since it's made up of a bunch of communities?
Being able to see a list of all the communities of an instance, without having to actually go to that instance.
Then being able to add whichever community from there with a simple button click.
E.g. I'm on lemmy.one, I can go to lemmy.one/communities to see all the local communities. Now I'd like to go to lemmy.one/[email protected] or similar, to see a complete list of lemm.ml's instances. Then, when I click "subscribe" next to e.g. "Comics" there, the community should be added to lemmy.one if it isn't already and subscribe me that way.
Also links to communities should automatically be changed to local links. lemmy.ml/c/Comics would become lemmy.one/c/[email protected] If it doesn't already exist on the local instance, clicking on it should not display a 404, but a message that it is being added and available soon.
It's a pain in the ass to go to each instance, copy the URL of each community and then pasting it to the search of my local one. Then wait for it to be indexed and finally being able to subscribe.
